... in the Apology ), the essay argues that defending the humanities as good leads to unacceptable conclusions. In the realm of literary studies, these take the form of exclusions of the kind (though not necessarily the degree) that Socrates models in the Republic . Any such censorship is unacceptable not because...

... directions in modern art and continental aesthetics. I argue that Nietzsche's anticathartic reading can be explained in terms of his critique of natural causation. Though this critique is often considered part of Nietzsche's naturalism, it contributes to the post-Kantian eclipse of nature and offers...

... of decision's renewal. This phenomenon, along with the curtailed temporalities that it engenders, is crystallized, though in a different register, in Beckett's 1981 play for television, Quad . © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 neoliberalism post-Fordism environmental power contingent labor liquidity...

...Graham Owen Though the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy construction of the city’s levees, the city’s recovery was to be not through enlightened government initiative but by frontier self-reliance, “personal responsibility.” Returning inhabitants, like pioneers, were to homestead...

... of literary studies. Though I also pursued a degree in political science, it was in my literature classes that I learned about left politics. And no wonder— in spite of their Arnoldian framework, these classes trained me in a unique form of empathy that could be carried on throughout a lifetime...

... of a fleshlight, analyzing strings of anal beads coated in a toxic-looking gloss, though people will put anything inside their bodies to feel whole. I should buy a souvenir. When again will I traverse these aisles with a purpose, searching for a rubber head to pulsate powerfully but at a subtle volume...

... in front, but I am ahead of Enok, just a bit. Jesper and Rasmus ski next to us. Rasmus is my alpha and I love him. I love him even though my harness pinches, even though my lead is tight, even though my paws are hurting. I love him, but I feel small. Today, I am listening for hearts. Rasmus’s heart...

... were telling people not to talk to me even though I d never said a word to either of them. Sam was much older. I never romanticized the age difference because I was too busy thinking about his ears. He had detached earlobes. They were round and fat and unpierced. We d met last year when I still worked...

... stop over and play Atari. I could have been no more than nine years old and walking up the street was an adventure. Though Sunday mornings were always quiet, the silence was broken by dogs barking at passing people and cars hitting potholes. In the middle of the block was Johnson...

... the piano, the elm choking on its own leaves, salt pouring down sunlight, as though you could circle the point at which labor becomes surplus, necessary become variable capital, as though the point at which the house darkens to the dark you will grow old in is part of anyone's theory, as though...

..., who seem to comment from a high perch. Though he had high academic predigrees, from Amherst and Stanford, he never seemed too far from the politics of the coal, glass, and steel-working towns of western PA where he grew up, and with which he identified. John Frederick Pfeil was born...

... of European writers, who seem to comment from a high perch. Though he had high academic predigrees, from Amherst and Stanford, he never seemed too far from the politics of the coal, glass, and steel-working towns of western PA where he grew up, and with which he identified. John Frederick Pfeil...

... of European writers, who seem to comment from a high perch. Though he had high academic predigrees, from Amherst and Stanford, he never seemed too far from the politics of the coal, glass, and steel-working towns of western PA where he grew up, and with which he identified. John Frederick Pfeil...

... on cotton, the gleaming corner of a note set to crackle, piercing the racial gloom of the American heart like buckshot, his trumpet bell uplifted and ringing. And though the rain may ooze and lovers lose that feeling, the moon melt down and the earth finally find its ceiling in the poisoned heavens...

... and even that was standardized, choices being light blue, light green, beige and yellow. The houses are small though designed to look ranch-like. They have nearly flat roofs that extend beyond their facades. Where the roofs end they're supported by beams, making front porches, which most of us...

... to it. I was there to work, to dust for her. Dust preoccupied her, or so she would say. But she was allergic to light and airborne matter and to certain colors on the UV spectrum, she told me, and she said too that her cat sneezed a lot at even smaller microparticles, though her place was cleaner than...

..., socialist-feminist, pre-party formation, working to create a political party worthy of the name. This was a genuine grass-roots organization. It had barely a handful of national officers, and though NAM never rivaled the size or national presence of SDS, according to the Congressional Record...

...-six when I was born, and by the time he died, my father was a thousand years old. Though large ducks and geese are common prey, the arctic ptarmigan provides up to 95% of the adult gyrfalcon’s diet. Because of this, gyrfalcon numbers and migration patterns...

... his naked foot into a sopping Topsider. “You have antisocial tenden- cies,” Seamus spat at Boodle through the headrest, “and an immature sense of conflict resolution, and a penchant for overreaction.” “A great arm, though,” said Boodle. “If I get trench foot, I’m going to bayonet you in your...

... to a particular set of politicoeconomic rela- tions, capitalism, a global totality whose dominance (not homogene- ity) has propelled the planet to the brink of catastrophe. In Almanac, common also figures an aspiration to mutually affirming relations among humans and nonhumans, though in Silko s case without...